"Not with a Whimper" is an episode of The Fugitive that features an elderly physician planning to bomb a mill in protest of its environmental practices. The physician and the mill owner's daughter had staged demonstrations at the plant to no avail, hoping the bad publicity would change some minds. Daughter moves on to other causes but Doc decides he'll bomb the laboratory. Don't worry, it will be on a Saturday and nobody will get hurt.
Doc is dying of heart disease so he can't do his own dirty work but Richard Kimble is in town. Kimble was a protege of the Doc back in the day and he's come to pay his respects to his mentor. He takes the bomb to the mill as a favor, believing it to be a fragile new device for monitoring pollution.
One thing leads to another and Kimble ends up locked in the laboratory seconds before the bomb is set to explode. A school group has a field trip on that same Saturday morning and one punk from the class sees the box holding the device and decides to swipe it. Kimble manages to get the kid to let go of the box and the boy repays the favor by locking Kimble in the lab.
Kimble submerses the bomb in a 50-gallon drum of oil that is conveniently stored in the lab. In a nice ironic touch, Evil Oil prevents the Good Deed from coming to fruition.
The narrator doesn't tell us if this incident changed Kimble's admiration for his mentor one way or the other. We do see for ourselves, however, that bratty school children have always existed and their mothers are their enablers.
Doc is dying of heart disease so he can't do his own dirty work but Richard Kimble is in town. Kimble was a protege of the Doc back in the day and he's come to pay his respects to his mentor. He takes the bomb to the mill as a favor, believing it to be a fragile new device for monitoring pollution.
One thing leads to another and Kimble ends up locked in the laboratory seconds before the bomb is set to explode. A school group has a field trip on that same Saturday morning and one punk from the class sees the box holding the device and decides to swipe it. Kimble manages to get the kid to let go of the box and the boy repays the favor by locking Kimble in the lab.
Kimble submerses the bomb in a 50-gallon drum of oil that is conveniently stored in the lab. In a nice ironic touch, Evil Oil prevents the Good Deed from coming to fruition.
The narrator doesn't tell us if this incident changed Kimble's admiration for his mentor one way or the other. We do see for ourselves, however, that bratty school children have always existed and their mothers are their enablers.